<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> My message on ALGOL resulted in many responses, with numerous suggestions and offers of a variety of artifacts: <ul> </ul> <ol> <li>Gordon Bell noted that DEC contracted with Nico Habermann at CMU for an excellent ALGOL compiler for the PDP-10. (I found the manuals at bitsavers.org and the source code at pdp-10.trailing-edge.com.)</li> <li>Dennis Austin loaned me his copy of Bob Bemer's "A Socio-Political History of Algol 60" and the Burroughs B 5000 ALGOL 60 Syntactical Chart.</li> <li>Grant Saviers:</li> <ul> <li>offered to donate a SMALGOL manual for the UNIVAC I, which includes the source listing</li> <li>recommended the ALGOL 60 compiler for the UNIVAC 1107/1108 written at Case Institute of Technology "for its very complete implementation and compile and run time diagnostic sophistication"; he provided additional background on the extensive 1107/1108 systems software developed at Case.</li> </ul> <li>Dennis Allison:</li> <ul> <li>offered to donate a B 5000 ALGOL compiler listing,</li> <li>suggested Mary, an Algol68 derivative for embedded systems designed by Ivan Godard (then known as Mark Rain),</li> <li>and introduced me to Ivan.</li> </ul> <li>Ivan Godard: </li> <ul> <li>explained about the history of Mary,</li> <li>offered to donate listings of the second version of the language (done at Penobscot Research Center in Maine for Data General and Harris machines; an operating system written in the first version of Mary by Ivan at one time ran the telephone system for China),</li> <li>offered to donate all issues of the IFP WG 2.4-sponsored Machine Oriented Languages bulletin,</li> <li>and gave me a lead for NU ALGOL, and recommended contacting the secretary for IFIP WG2.1 -- to ask about ALGOL meeting minutes.</li> </ul> <li>Olin Sibert recalled difficulties trying to use a paper-tape based ALGOL on a Data General machine in 1973; he was not successful. (Incidentally, he would be interested in having softwarepreservation.org host the large volume of digitized Multics materials that he has accumulated.)</li> <li>Van Snyder:</li> <ul> <li>suggested more contacts for NU ALGOL, when it was being worked on at the University of Wisconsin,</li> <li>and reminded me of a source of JOVIAL (and NELIAC and SHARE ALGOL) documents: a collection donated to CHM by Mark Halpern, which I had cataloged back when I was working on FORTRAN.</li> </ul> <li>Dave Redell recalled working on BC ALGOL for the IBM 7094 at Berkeley.</li> <li>Al Kossow scanned a 1969 listing of Algol W provided by Dennis Allison.</li> <li>I discovered the Halpern collection mentioned above also included van der Mey's "Process for an ALGOL Translator" -- the ALGOL 60 source code for the Stantec Zebra Algol translator and interpreter. Halpern's copy was badly insect-damaged and was not accepted by CHM, but Al Kossow painstakingly scanned as much as he could.</li> </ol> <ul> </ul> I thank all of you, and will be happy to help expedite the donations mentioned above to CHM. Paul On 5/11/2010 4:28 PM, Paul McJones wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4BE9E806.50003@mcjones.org" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> I have recently been working on an ALGOL page for the Software Preservation Group web site:     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/">http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/</a> It covers the evolution of the language including International Algebraic Language (Algol 58), Algol 60, and Algol 68. It also covers many implementations (especially of Algol 60), dialects, and offshoots.  Due to the efforts of a number of people around the world, source code exists for some historic implementations, including: <ul> <li>Burroughs 205 (Knuth)</li> <li>Burroughs 220 (Erdwinn et al.) </li> <li>Electrologica X1 (Dijkstra and Zonneveld)</li> <li>Electrologica X18 (Kruseman Aretz)</li> <li>Elliot 803 (Hoare et al.)</li> <li>G.E.C. process control computer (Higman)</li> <li>GIER (Regnecentalen) (Naur et al.)</li> <li>Whetstone (English Electric) (Randell and Russell)</li> <li>ZEBRA (Netherlands PTT/Standard Telephones and Cables) (van der Mey) (binary only) </li> </ul> There is also source code for Algol W (Wirth's proposed successor to Algol 60) and for several Algol 68 implementations (although I'm still working on Algol 68). A scanned copy of Randell and Russell's Algol 60 Implementation is available (Brian obtained permission from the current copyright holder, and Al Kossow provided a scanned copy).  As always, I welcome comments and suggestions. Paul </blockquote> </body> </html>